Vol. 9 USING G-SUITE IN THE CLASSROOM Recommended Apps and Extensions: As G-Suite Administrator, you can push out apps and G-Suite (formerly Apps for Education or GAFE) extensions to your students (From Admin Console, Click is a suite of FREE apps for schools. G-Suite allows for Device Management, Chrome Management, User online storage, anywhere access to documents across Settings). If you allow it, they can also be added platforms (phone, tablet, iPad, computer), document manually: sharing/collaboration in real-time, communication (email, blogs, classroom). Google is so popular in education, that many apps and websites integrate with Googleto allow Single Sign On (SSO) and uploading finished products directly to Classroom or Drive.

Core Services: (including Inbox by Gmail), Calendar, Chrome Sync, Classroom, Contacts, Drive, Docs, Forms, Groups, Sheets, Sites, Slides, Talk/Hangouts and Vault.

Additional Services: YouTube, My Maps, .

Setup Tips: • AdBlocker-blocks ads from loading on webpages. • Obtain Parental Consent for Students under 18: Great for speed, but also great for keeping students (recommended for core services, required for additional from seeing questionable ads . Some sites request services) https://support.google.com/a/answer/7391849 you turn it off (GoNoodle, EasyBib) because ads are • Use Organizational Units: Faculty, separate how they stay free. Just click the icon and choose students by graduation year "Don't run on pages in this Domain." • Uniform usernames (ex: initials, grad year, number= • G-Suite Training-this handing extension is always js1801) Keep a spreadsheet of on. If students are in any Google App, they can click usernames/passwords for students. Do not allow it and it will offer training videos that pertain to them to change their passwords. When creating what they are doing. Great for the Admin Console, student accounts in other apps, use the same too! username and password (or SSO if possible). • Screen Castify - Record screen, system audio, • Train your teachers first! They don't have to know microphone, and webcam. Saves directly to Google everything there is to know about G-Suite, but they Drive as . file. Can be uploaded to classroom. need to feel COMFORTABLE or they won't use it. Great way for teachers to flip lesson or students to record How To videos or presentations. There is a • Start small-restrict access and then add it as maximum length for the videos, but students can students prove they are using G-Suite responsibly. record them individually then use iMovie or • Set the stage: this is students "work" account. It MovieMaker to combine into 1 video should be used solely for enhancing their learning • https://www.teachthought.com/technology/50-of- and education. It should not be viewed as a the-best-google-chrome-extensions-for-teachers/ personal, private account. The school has the right to (and should) check student account activity

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Vol. 9 Add-Ons: Tips Add-ons are available within the various Google apps. For instance, in , install the EasyBib add on to be able to cite work and insert citations directly 1. If students are taking them home-use cases that within Google Docs. There are add-ons for mail merges, have straps and secure Chromebook in the case graphic organizers, label merges, table of contents and (I recommend Targus). more! Add-ons can also be forced out from the Admin 2. should never be placed on the console. floor or carried in arms with books. 3. Purchase extra "loaner" Chromebooks for Good places for help/training: students to use when Chromebooks are out of • G-Suite for Education FAQ: service. https://support.google.com/a/answer/139019?hl=e 4. Before going one-to-one, have carts of n&ref_topic=6047382 Chromebooks available for students. This • Manage Chrome Devices: introduces them to using Chromebooks in a https://support.google.com/a/answer/1375678?hl= controlled, monitored setting. It also gets the en teachers used to integrating them into their • Google Training and Certification for Educators: lessons. By the end of a year or two, the https://edutrainingcenter.withgoogle.com/ teachers and students will be begging to go one- • Google Training for Admins: to-one. https://gsuite.google.com/setup/ 5. Insurance-Do not make it optional. If you don't go through an insurance company, then have parents pay a fee to the school. Keep that money in an account and use it for repair/replacement costs. *Chromebooks usually under warranty for 1 year.

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